Restoring the Healer
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Restoring the Healer

Spiritual Self-Care for Health Care Professionals

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eBook - ePub

Restoring the Healer

Spiritual Self-Care for Health Care Professionals

About this book

Burn out. Two words that haunt those in high stress jobs, especially in the medical profession. Long hours and the literal life-and-death nature of the field creates expectations to not only be on call at all hours, but to be at one's best, even at 3:00 AM after a twenty-hour shift. So much energy is devoted to the care of others that self-care is forgotten.
Yet, more are noticing and research confirms that self-care is needed, not only for personal sanity but also for quality of work. Unwell medical professionals are not the best at treating others. And this self-care includes not just rest, food, and water, but a deeper care, one that tends the spiritual side as well.
To both the spiritually active and the spiritually resistant, hospital chaplain William Dorman offers a guide to understand a more comprehensive, full-bodied self-care. Each chapter begins with case studies, concrete experiences that help unpack abstract concepts which bring much needed peace to stressed individuals. Dorman also structures each chapter to end with prayers and action steps, which offer more concrete ways to care for the self.
From working as a hospital chaplain for over 18 years, and serving as the director of chaplaincy services for the largest integrated health care system in New Mexico, Rev. Dorman recognizes the stresses that come to those who have made it their profession to heal others. Healers need healing too—and this guide is the first step.

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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781599474939
eBook ISBN
9781599474946
Subtopic
Caregiving

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Christina M. Puchalski, MD
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1: Embrace Awe
  10. CHAPTER 2: Heal Your Inner Healer
  11. CHAPTER 3: Keep Tragedy in Perspective
  12. CHAPTER 4: See the Patient as a Person
  13. CHAPTER 5: Practice Self-Care
  14. CHAPTER 6: Make Peace with the Tragic
  15. CHAPTER 7: Find Balance
  16. CHAPTER 8: Contend with Limits and Possibilities
  17. CHAPTER 9: Show Compassion
  18. CHAPTER 10: Rediscover Your Passion, Purpose, Resiliency
  19. CHAPTER 11: Offer Kindness and Humility
  20. CHAPTER 12: Express Encouragement, Gratitude, and Humor
  21. Afterword
  22. About the Author